{"id":283,"date":"2024-07-06T11:04:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T11:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=283"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T11:04:32","slug":"reformist-elected-irans-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/reformist-elected-irans-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformist Elected Iran’s New President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian has defeated his hardline conservative rival, Saeed Jalili to emerge as the newly elected president of Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Pezeshkian was declared winner after he secured 53.3% of the more than 30 million votes counted. Mr Jalili polled at 44.3%.<\/span><\/p>\n

A run-off election was conducted as none of the candidates secured a majority in the first round of the election on 28 June, which saw a historically low voter turnout of 40%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Election for a new president became imperative after the country\u2019s previous president Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in May, in which seven others also died.<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporters of Dr. Pezeshkian reportedly trooped out to the streets of Tehran in jubilation over his victory, even before the final results were announced by the interior ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Pezeshkian is a 71-year-old heart surgeon and member of the Iranian parliament, who has been critical of Iran\u2019s notorious morality police. He caused a stir after promising \u201cunity and cohesion\u201d, as well as an end to Iran’s \u201cisolation\u201d from the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Pezeshkian also advocated for \u201cconstructive negotiations\u201d with Western powers over a renewal of the faltering 2015 nuclear deal in which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in return for an easing of Western sanctions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He has also called for \u201cconstructive negotiations\u201d with Western powers over a renewal of the faltering <\/span>2015 nuclear deal<\/span><\/a> in which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in return for an easing of Western sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

His hardline rival, Saeed Jalili is in favour of the status quo. The former nuclear negotiator enjoys strong support amongst Iran\u2019s most religious groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Jalili is popularly known for his hardline anti-Western stance and opposition to restoring the nuclear deal, which he says crossed Iran\u2019s \u201cred lines”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turnout in the latest round of voting was 50% – higher than the first round last week, when the turnout was the lowest since the Islamic revolution in 1979 amid widespread discontent, but still considerably low.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: BBC News<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian has defeated his hardline conservative rival, Saeed Jalili to emerge as the newly elected president of Iran. Dr Pezeshkian was declared winner after he secured 53.3% of the more than 30 million votes counted. Mr Jalili polled at 44.3%. A run-off election was conducted as none of the candidates secured a majority […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}